This blog started as a place to bring objectivity, quantitative analysis, and science to green living, but has evolved to focus more on my research, with some cool science stories mixed in. I reserve the right to write about anything that fascinates me. I'm a senior conservation scientist for The Nature Conservancy, but content posted here is my own. I tweet at @sciencejon and my bio is at https://www.nature.org/science-in-action/our-scientists/jon-fisher.xml

Thursday, October 31, 2013

I got an interesting question via "Ask the Conservationist" at work:"Barbara Wimmel of Freiburg, Germany writes:
As I have been a vegetarian for many years, one question has been on my
mind for a long time. We are told incessantly to eat lots of fruit and
vegetables: But isn't it true that (most? all? which?) vegetables can be
grown only while needing a lot of water (and this often seems to mean
irrigation)? If so what possible solution(s) exist for this problem?"